AN OVERVIEW OF THE QUINAULT INDIAN NATION's ONGOING INVOLVEMENT WITH THE EXCHANGE NETWORK GRANT PROG

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE QUINAULT INDIAN NATION's
ONGOING INVOLVEMENT WITHTHE EXCHANGE
NETWORK GRANT PROGRAM

• NCAI Tribal Exchange Network Meeting
• Palm Springs, CA
• April 2008

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- Reservation covers 207,000 acres

• Plus fishing and hunting rights outside
• in the Usual Accustomed Areas

- Contains 600 plus miles of mapped rivers
streams
- gt25 water quality monitoring sites
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• Collect ph, dissolved oxygen, temperature,
• turbidity, E-coli, analytes for organic
• compounds and metals, tissue samples

• One air quality monitoring site, to
  monitor the
• effects of slash pile burnings from
  timber
• harvests

• Off-reservation the Nation has
  co-management
• responsibilities of multiple fisheries
  with the
• State of Washington salmon, crab, razor
  clams,
• amongst many

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- The air and water quality programs have
been ongoing for 7 years much data
has been collected
- Both programs are supported by EPA-funding

• EPA funding of the water quality program
  comes
• from several grants

- 106 funding
- 319 funding
- GAP funding
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Past Activities

• Applied for and received an Exchange
  Network
• Readiness Grant in FY2004

• This grant was primarily used to beef up
• the tribal networks infrastructure

- Purchased new server, GIS workstations

• Built up principal network backbone to
  transmit
• data at gigabit speed

• Funded training for server administration
  and
• intranet mapping capability development

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The Business Drivers

• The Quinault Nation has business needs to
• consolidate the accumulated water quality
• data into a unified database to make
  the
• information more usable and accessible

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• The EPA has mandated water quality data
• reporting for its 106-funded grants
  since 2006,
• prior to that it was voluntary

• Application by the Nation for treatment
  as a state
• by the EPA with respect to water
  quality
• standards

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• The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
  has
• received an Exchange Network grant to
  establish
• a WQX node, along with providing
  outreach
• and technical support to its member
  tribes

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• The Nation is a Commission member tribe,
  and
• has been designated one of two pilots
  for testing

• The Water Quality Exchange has matured
  with
• regards to standards and developed
  schemas

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The Future

• The Nation has submitted a grant proposal
• for a second round of Exchange Network
  funding

• This grants principal goals are

• Consolidate all water quality data into a
  
• a single database

• Map the existing water quality data to
  the
• WQX schema and establish workflows to
• incorporate future data

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- Migrate this database to SQL Server
2005 to provide secure, managed,
multi-user access to the data

• establish a client node and test its
  connection to
• the NWIFC WQX node, in anticipation of
  establishing
• a production node

• Provide for an additional server to
  allow for the
• separation of applications server and
  the data
• management server functions

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- Support tribal participation in the
Exchange Networks governance structure,
specifically the Network Technical Group
(NTG)
- Extend the networks gigabit
transmission to the tribal Planning
department located in the lower village
to enhance their data access
capabilities
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Some Issues Concerns

• Tribal concern over the release of data
  into
• the public domain its uses and
  potential
• adverse impacts

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• The ability to attract and keep the IT
  personnel
• necessary to operate and maintain the
  exchange
• infrastructure, given the constant
  changes that arise
• from ongoing changes in the associated
  technologies

• The desire to see the incorporation of
  geospatial
• capabilities to the Exchange Network. See
  the data
• in the context of a map - like in
  Google Earth

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What we wish to protect and sustain for
the future
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THANK YOU
Questions Please contact Tony Hartrich, QDNR
GIS Program Manager Phone [phone], ext.
479 e-mail thartrich_at_quinault.org